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Update from Ukraine | The Big Ruzzian Attack Starts to Fail | Belarus may enter the conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpYQuLW8T0&t=764s
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Update from Ukraine | The Big Ruzzian Attack Starts to Fail | Belarus may enter the conflict
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Ukrainians are seriously expanding its forces to repel Russian invasion and liberate the occupied land.
Ukrainian Army continues to grow and have started forming additional brigades within the Ground Forces. On January 30, we reported about five new Ukrainian brigades being formed, today we can reveal five more new brigades.
23rd Mechanized Brigade – a new brigade of Ukrainian Ground Forces, currently at the stage of formation.
31st Mechanized Brigade – another new mechanized brigade. According to the volunteers on social media, the first battalion is already deployed to the front, while the rest of the brigade is still being formed.
32nd Mechanized Brigade is a completely new mechanized brigade of Ukrainian Ground Forces, currently at the stage of formation.
48th Artillery Brigade is a new artillery brigade being formed in Poltava Oblast.
117th Mechanized Brigade – after the reveal of 116th and 118th Mechanized Brigade, it was only a matter of time when the 117th Mechanized Brigade appears.
soldiers of 117th Mechanized Brigade
118th Mechanized Brigade – the existence of the unit has been confirmed since our previous report, the brigade received a military number A4712.
Our list of Ukrainian Ground Forces has been updated to reflect the changes above.
https://militaryland.net/news/new-brigades-are-being-formed/
ARTICLE
Russian tank is blown up by a landmine… before another suffers the exact same fate moments later while driving past in latest display of incompetence by Putin’s military
-Russia has been inching closer to the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in recent weeks
-But the slow progress has been made at a huge cost to Russia’s military
By Chris Jewers
04:25 EST, 13 February 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11744255/Russian-tank-blown-landmine-suffers-exact-fate.html?ito=push-notification&ci=VxffK9PSpP&cri=Jc6MFeneaW&si=qUE_cMbMuf0Y&xi=90d65f60-88f8-4565-8362-1a61ff1c99fe&ai=11744255
A Russian tank was blown up by a landmine on a battlefield in Ukraine, moments before another suffered the exact same fate, in the latest display of incompetence by Vladimir Putin’s military captured on camera.
The clip emerged as Russian forces inched closer to Bakhmut over the weekend, with the Wagner private military company claiming to have captured a village on the outskirts of the Ukrainian city.
The PMC said its ‘assault units’ seized Krasna Gora on Sunday, posting footage of its soldiers at what appeared to be the entrance to the settlement found four miles to the north of the city which has been at the centre of a fierce months-long battle.
But Russia’s slow progress has been made at a huge cost. Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday the Russian Armed Forces have likely suffered their highest casualties in the last seven days since the first week of the invasion.
Ukrainian and Western officials have repeatedly warned that Russia could launch a new, broad offensive in the country’s east to try to turn the tide of the conflict as the war approaches the one-year mark. Ukrainian officials say it has already begun, but that Moscow is having trouble mounting such an assault.
Footage from Vuhledar in recent days has shown Russian tanks and soldiers coming under attack from Ukrainian artillery. In a new clip that emerged this morning, two Russian tanks were shown being blown to pieces by Ukrainian mines.
The video, captured by a drone, shows a Russian T-80 tank rolling across a crater-covered minefield field. Suddenly, a plume of smoke appears where the tank had been moments earlier, after driving over an explosive.
A second tank is seen coming up the rear, but as the crew pulls the vehicle up along-side the wreckage of the first armoured vehicle, it also hits a mine.
Another huge explosion erupts from underneath the tank, blasting bits of metal far into the air. The tank continues rolling and steers off to the left, before stopping.
It was not immediately clear how many Russian casualties there were in the two blasts, but neither tank appeared to be moving by the end of the clip.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised efforts by repair workers to restore power after a barrage of Russian missiles damaged energy infrastructure - killing a number civilians in the process.
One person was killed and one more was wounded on Sunday morning by the shelling of Nikopol, a city in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Gov. Serhii Lysak reported. The shelling damaged four residential buildings, a vocational school and a water treatment facility.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, one person was wounded after three Russian S-300 missiles hit infrastructure facilities overnight, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.
Ukrainian forces also downed five drones - four Shahed killer drones and one Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone - over the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions on Saturday evening, Kyiv’s military reported.
The attacks come as Russian forces push to take over more land in the eastern industrial heartland of Donbas, comprised of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
But Kyiv say that Moscow is struggling trouble mounting its new push.
‘They are having big problems with a big offensive,’ Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told Ukrainian television on Saturday night.
‘They have begun their offensive, they’re just not saying they have, and our troops are repelling it very powerfully. The offensive that they planned is already gradually underway. But (it is) not the offensive they were counting on,’ Danilov said.
A U.S.-based think tank noted that it is also Russia’s pro-Kremlin military bloggers who question Moscow’s ability to launch a broad offensive in Ukraine.
They ‘continue to appear demoralized at the Kremlin’s prospects for executing a major offensive,’ the Institute for the Study of War said in its latest report.
How does the Big Russian Attack start to fail if it hasn’t started yet?
If things are going badly for Russia, that can only great news. It’s time for them to figure it out... A leadership change would go a long way in ending this conflict, saving lives and saving face.
VIDEOS
1. Dramatic video appears to show heavy losses among Russian armored formations
CNN
Feb 13, 2023 8:48 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-07fklxrJiI
The eastern front has seen some of the heaviest fighting in Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian sources say that the Russian mechanized brigade trying to push through the town of Vuhledar saw significant losses recently.
2. Advancing Russians threw away their equipment and fled from battlefield en masse
Kanal13
Feb 13, 2023 1:50 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QL_HAGVeJo
3. AFTER THE DESTROYED ARMOR - THE RUSSIANS ARE NOW LAUNCHING INFANTRY-ONLY, “MEAT WAVE” AT VUHLEDAR
Warthog Defense
Feb 13, 2023 9:50 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eDtFwhGV5I
Shhhhhhhhhh! 
This schizophrenic propaganda is as crazy as it gets. Is the strategy that wishing for victory will make it so?
I’m glad to hear Russia is failing before we hit $200 billion in aid.
OK EU, you got this on your own!
Russia is weak and failing and out of weapons.
—> This schizophrenic propaganda is as crazy as it gets. Is the strategy that wishing for victory will make it so?
Oh definitely, to a Zeeper!
Pootie's been working on it, but the West has a lot of leaders:
Various other EU governments are having internal troubles as well.
“If things are going badly for Russia, that can only great news. It’s time for them to figure it out... A leadership change would go a long way in ending this conflict,”
Agree. There is a video/article regarding Kremlin removing private army from Ukraine.
Helpful video 😉
Ukraine War: Why has Russia’s spring offensive started early?
Sky News
Feb 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thh3mV_wrkY
Retired Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell takes a look at NATO claims Russia’s anticipated spring offensive against Ukraine has already started in the east of the country.
Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-wa...
VIDEOS
1. Leaked Calls: Russian Conscripts Can’t Flee Soon Enough!
Combat Veteran Reacts
Feb 13, 2023 7:00 P.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epk9V8QR3Pk
2. Propagandist sends young Russians to front but son to London | Break the Fake | TVP World
TVP World
Feb 13, 2023 5:18 P.m. EST
Curiously enough, his own children are exempt from these patriotic duties. Daniil Solovyov, the propagandist’s 21-year-old son, is working as a model in London.
3. RUSSIAN MEGA OFFENSIVE HAS BEGUN - WITH DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES FOR THE RUSSIAN ARMY || 2023
Warthog Defense
Feb 13, 2023 7:18 P.m. EST
You should do something useful with your life. This blood dancing of yours is like kiddie porn.
ARTICLE
Russians abandon wartime Russia in historic exodus
Stars and Stripes
Francesca Ebel and Mary Ilyushina
The Washington Post • February 13, 2023
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https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2023-02-13/russians-wartime-exodus-9127629.html
“YEREVAN, Armenia — As Russian troops stormed into Ukraine last February, sending millions of Ukrainians fleeing for their lives, thousands of other Russians raced to pack their bags and leave.”
YEREVAN, Armenia — As Russian troops stormed into Ukraine last February, sending millions of Ukrainians fleeing for their lives, thousands of other Russians raced to pack their bags and leave home, fearing the Kremlin would shut the borders and impose martial law.
Some had long opposed rising authoritarianism, and the invasion was a last straw. Others were driven by economic interest, to preserve livelihoods or escape the bite of sanctions. Then, last autumn, a military mobilization spurred hundreds of thousands of men to run.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war has set off a historic exodus of his own people. Initial data shows that at least 500,000, and perhaps nearly 1 million, have left in the year since the invasion began — a tidal wave on scale with emigration following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.
Now, as then, the departures stand to redefine the country for generations. And the flood may still be in its early stages. The war seems nowhere near finished. Any new conscription effort by the Kremlin will spark new departures, as will worsening economic conditions, which are expected as the conflict drags on.
The huge outflow has swelled existing Russian expatriate communities across the world, and created new ones.
Some fled nearby to countries like Armenia and Kazakhstan, across borders open to Russians. Some with visas escaped to Finland, the Baltic states or elsewhere in Europe. Others ventured farther, to the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Thailand, Argentina. Two men from Russia’s Far East even sailed a small boat to Alaska.
The financial cost, while vast, is impossible to calculate. In late December, Russia’s Communications Ministry reported that 10 percent of the country’s IT workers had left in 2022 and not returned. Russia’s parliament is now debating a package of incentives to bring them back.
But there has also been talk in parliament of punishing Russians who left by stripping them of their assets at home. Putin has referred to these people as “scum” and said their exit would “cleanse” the country — even though some who left did not oppose him, or the war.
With the government severely restricting dissent, and implementing punishment for criticism of the war, those remaining in the depleted political opposition also faced a choice this year: prison or exile. Most chose exile. Activists and journalists are now clustered in cities such as Berlin and the capitals of Lithuania, Latvia and Georgia.
“This exodus is a terrible blow for Russia,” said Tamara Eidelman, a Russian historian who moved to Portugal after the invasion. “The layer that could have changed something in the country has now been washed away.”
While Ukrainian refugees were embraced in the West, many countries shunned the Russians, uncertain whether they were friends or foes, and whether, on some level, the entire country was culpable. Some nations have blocked arrivals by imposing entry restrictions or denying new visas, at times spreading panic among Russians already abroad, especially students.
Meanwhile, the influx of Russians in countries such as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which have long sent immigrants to Russia, set off political tremors, straining ties between Moscow and the other former Soviet states. Real estate prices in those countries have shot up, causing tensions with local populations.
Nearly a year after the start of the invasion — and the new outflow of Russians — Washington Post journalists traveled to Yerevan and to Dubai for a close look at how the emigres are faring, and to ask if they ever plan to return. Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, a former Soviet republic, is a destination for Russians with lower financial mobility — an Orthodox Christian country where Russian is the second language. By contrast, pricey Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, is predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking, and attracts wealthier Russians seeking either glitz or business opportunity.
Yerevan
For many Russians choosing to flee, Armenia was a rare easy option. It is one of five ex-Soviet countries that allow Russians to enter with just a national ID — making it a popular destination for former soldiers, political activists and others needing a quick escape.
Given the shared religion and language, Russians typically do not face animosity or social stigma in Armenia. Obtaining residency permits is also straightforward, and living costs are lower than in the European Union.
Yerevan has attracted thousands of IT workers, young creatives and working-class people, including families with children, from across Russia. They have established new schools, bars, cafes and robust support networks.
In the courtyard of the “Free School” for Russian children, established in April, Maxim, a construction company manager, was waiting for his 8-year-old son, Timofey. The school started with 40 students in an apartment. Now, there are nearly 200 in a multistory building in the city center.
Maxim, whom The Post is identifying by only his first name for security reasons, flew to Yerevan from Volgograd to avoid the mobilization in September. “We left for the same reason everyone did: There was suddenly a real danger in the country for me and, above all, my family,” he said.
The family has adapted seamlessly to Yerevan. Everyone around them speaks Russian. Maxim works remotely on projects in Russia. Timofey likes his school and is learning Armenian. Maxim said he is sure the family will not return to Russia.
“Perhaps we will move on somewhere else, maybe even to Europe if things start to normalize,” he said.
At a shelter on the outskirts of Yerevan, Andrei, 25, a former military officer from Russia’s Rostov region, said he was also adjusting to his new life after similarly fleeing conscription. “I did not want to be a murderer in this criminal war,” said Andrei, who is being identified by his first name for safety reasons.
Andrei works as a delivery driver, and shares a modest room with two other men in a shelter set up by Kovcheg, a support organization for Russians emigrants. “Before the war I never followed politics, but after the invasion I started reading about everything,” Andrei said. “I feel so ashamed about what Russia has done.”
Meanwhile, at a co-working space downtown, Russian activist groups organize debates, political meetings and therapy sessions. Messages of support for Ukraine hang on the walls, along with the white and blue flag adopted by Russia’s opposition. At one meeting in late January, dozens of Russians were hunched over tables, writing letters to political prisoners in Russia.
“The more letters, the better,” said Ivan Lyubimov, 37, an activist from Yekaterinburg. “It’s important that they don’t feel they are alone.” He held up a cartoon of a smiling panda. To circumvent prison censorship, they must avoid writing anything political, but drawings are certain to be delivered.
Tanya Raspopova, 26, arrived in Yerevan last March with her husband, but without a plan, overwhelmed and frightened.
Then, she heard another emigre was seeking partners to set up a bar, a space where Russian expats could come together, and she wanted to help. Tuf, named after the pink volcanic rock common throughout Yerevan, opened its doors within a month.
They started with a neon-lit bar and kitchen on the ground floor, which soon expanded into a small courtyard. Then they opened up a second floor, then a third. Upstairs there is now a recording studio, a clothing boutique and a tattoo parlor. On a Wednesday night in January, the place was packed with young Russians and Armenians singing karaoke, drinking cocktails and playing ping-pong. “We have since created such a big community, a big family,” Raspopova said. “Tuf is our new home.”
Dubai
Russians are everywhere in Dubai: clutching Dior totes perched atop Louis Vuitton suitcases in the airport, walking around malls in tracksuits and filming TikToks and Reels near the Burj Khalifa.
Russia’s rich and powerful have long traveled to Dubai, but it was just one of many hot spots. That changed when the war cut Russians off from the West.
Thousands have chosen the UAE, which did not join Western sanctions and still has direct flights to Moscow, as their new home. Russians enjoy visa-free travel for 90 days, and it is relatively easy to get a national ID through business or investment for a longer stay.
The high cost of living means there are no activists or journalists. Dubai is a haven, and the go-to playground, for Russian tech founders, billionaires under sanctions, unpenalized millionaires, celebrities and influencers.
Shortly after the invasion, conversations in Moscow’s affluent Patriarch Ponds neighborhood turned to the best Dubai real estate deals, said Natalia Arkhangelskaya, who writes for Antiglyanets, a snarky and influential Telegram blog focused on Russia’s elite. A year later, Russians have ousted Brits and Indians as Dubai’s top real estate buyers, Russian-owned yachts dock at the marina, and private jets zigzag between Dubai and Moscow.
Russians can still buy apartments, open bank accounts and snag designer leather goods they previously shopped for in France.
“Dubai is built on the concept that people with money come here,” Arkhangelskaya said.
The UAE’s embrace of foreign business has enticed a stream of Russian IT workers seeking to cut ties with Russia and stay linked to global markets. Start-ups seek financing from state-supported accelerators. Larger firms pursue clients to replace those lost to sanctions.
A 40th floor apartment in one of the Jumeirah Beach Residence towers, with stunning views, is reserved for weekly meetups open to IT newcomers. On a windy January evening, the organizer, Ivan Fediakov, who heads a consulting company, greeted guests, wearing a black hoodie with “Everyone understands everything” printed on it — a catchphrase popularized by Alexey Pivovarov, a Russian journalist branded by Russia as a foreign agent whose YouTube channel has 3.5 million subscribers.
About a dozen people arrived to discuss opportunities in India, which has maintained ties with Russia despite the war. Most expressed bitterness about the Kremlin’s politics and longing for Moscow when it was an aspiring global hub.
Alexandra Dorf, an IT entrepreneur, moved to Dubai with her two children in April. “No one knew what was going to happen next,” Dorf said.
“Borders can be shut abruptly,” she said. “A decision had to be made; you either stay or you go quickly.”
In 2022, Dorf severed all ties with Russia: She sold her apartment and car and found a new job in Dubai as a business development officer at an AI-focused company.
“For the first two months, you are constantly stressed, your children have been torn out from their usual way of life, and you can’t enroll them into a school midyear,” she said. “But Dubai is a blooming hub.”
“The most important thing for me is to be able to develop international projects and to integrate my kids into a global community, so they grow up in a free environment,” she added.
Aside from techies, many middle-class Russians followed the money to Dubai — for hospitality jobs, to open beauty salons or simply work remotely far from the warmongering motherland.
Artem Babinov, founder of a co-living space called Colife in Moscow, opened an office in Dubai days before the invasion, hoping to attract British finance specialists. The war changed his plans, and he now rents dozens of properties as short-term housing, mainly to Russians in their 30s. “The community here is key,” Babinov said. “People just need other people.”
Third exodus
Like the white Russian emigres of the Bolshevik era and the post-Soviet immigrants of the 1990s, many of those leaving Russia because of the war in Ukraine are likely gone for good.
Eidelman, the Russian historian, said that the longer the war, the deeper the scars. “Every extra month leads people to get used to a different country,” she said. “They get a job there, their children go to school, they begin to speak a different language. The longer the war lasts, the longer the dictatorship in the country continues, the fewer people will return.”
But technology makes this exodus unlike its predecessors, guaranteeing that Russians abroad will remain connected to their past.
Matthew Rojansky, president of the U.S. Russia Foundation, a Washington-based group, said the Russian expats could become “a repository of relevant skills for a better, freer, modern Russia.” For now, though, Rojansky said, the outflow sends an clear message.
“It’s historic,” he said. “These people are voting with their feet. They are leaving because of what the Putin regime is doing.”
Ebel reported from Yerevan, Armenia, and Ilyushina reported from Dubai.
“do something useful with your life”
So, should we all. 😊
Boris and Liz are ex-leaders... The problem with Vlad is that he’s declared himself President for life... So there’s only one sure way to replace him... Bullet to the head, put it his mouth though and it looks more like a suicide.
Announcement from Russia... Putin has committed suicide over his failure to successfully invade the Ukraine... Details to follow later.
VIDEOS
1. THE PAYBACK - AZERBAIJANI FIGHTERS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL LEGION CAPTURED RUSSIAN SOLDIERS || 2023
Warthog Defense
Feb 13, 2023
2-13-2023 5:13 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Ldy0mVifM
2. Ukraine’s Counter Attack is Small, but VERY Significant! 13 FEB 23 Ukraine Daily Update
Combat Veteran Reacts
2-13-2023 12:05 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epk9V8QR3Pk
3. Leaked Calls: Russian Conscripts Can’t Flee Soon Enough!
Combat Veteran Reacts
2-13-2023 7:45 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epk9V8QR3Pk&t=662s
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